2/16/2005

Oil for Food: Swiss firm Cotecna Protecting Kofi Annan's son Kojo Annan?

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), is one of several congressional and law-enforcement agencies investigating the scandal in which Saddam ripped off $21.3 billion through kickbacks and oil smuggling — and rewarded sympathetic international figures with sweetheart oil deals.

The Swiss firm Cotecna inspected aid shipments into Iraq for the United Nations...

...Coleman chided Cotecna executives for failing to tell the full story about the activities of Kojo Annan, son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who was employed by the firm at the time it won the U.N. oil-for-food contract.

DR